"[Extreme Programming] practices can be readily and beneficially adapted to architecture. This paper shows how." Written by an architect/software developer. (Via Jonas Bengtsson.)

"So how does this big -- and successful -- IT project prove that big IT projects are doomed? It became successful only because [they] _stopped_ running it as a big IT project."

"The Agile Manifesto states: 'The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.' Yet the topic of self-organizing teams seems to barely deserve a mention at conferences or in articles."